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Josephson, Jyl. "Coercive Visibility: Gender Deviance, TANF Reauthorization, and State Control of Low-Income Women and Men" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62189_index.html>

Josephson, J. , 2003-08-27 "Coercive Visibility: Gender Deviance, TANF Reauthorization, and State Control of Low-Income Women and Men" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62189_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Feminist scholars have noted that recent policy developments in the arena of intimate association are examples of contradictory trends in state regulation of families and intimate life (Fraser 1997, Mink 1998, Smith 2001). On the one hand, in redistributive policy areas such as public benefits for low-income families, the state has been reducing its support for families. On the other hand, the state has increased its intervention in the realms related to sexuality and the regulation of morality through laws such as the Defense of Marriage Acts (at federal and state levels) and the marriage incentives, family caps, and abstinence-only sex education funding in welfare law. This paper uses these feminist lenses to examine the social control and coercion of those who receive government benefits, and especially the control of women and men receiving TANF or whose children receive TANF. I focus on the current debate over the re-authorization of the 1996 welfare law, and proposals to extend state control over women who receive TANF benefits through the further extension of marriage incentives. The paper will examine H.R. 4, the current proposal for reauthorizing the TANF program, in particular with respect to provisions for marriage promotion. The paper argues that programs such as the marriage promotion and abstinence-only sex education initiatives in H.R. 4 construct low-income women and men as both gender role deviants and as sexual deviants, the latter because they are failed heterosexuals. Thus, the paper uses the TANF program as an example of state coercion and the justification for such coercion for groups targeted due to gender, race, class, benefit status, and perceptions regarding sexual deviancy. It suggests that these policies focus our attention on individuals as pathological and deviant, and make invisible many salient aspects of contemporary poverty. In turn this focus justifies coercive treatment of these individuals based on their constructed status as deviants. Families and intimate association are matters that have both public and private dimensions in democratic polities. Ultimately these claims are about the nature of the political community and the extent to which it is responsive to claims regarding the unjust treatment of members and the exclusion of individuals and groups from the political process; thus, they are about the inclusion of all members in democratic decision-making. The coercive shaming of people who are the target of policies such as TANF acts as a justification for policies that actually harm the people they are purportedly providing with assistance.

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